Course Summary

This course aims at providing students with basic understanding of technological entrepreneurship, knowledge of business modeling and essential skills to be a startup.

Firstly, this course emphasizes on technological entrepreneurship, which considers the conversion of technology to commercialization. Secondly, many guest speakers with rich entrepreneurial experiences will be invited to share successful experiences. Last year, Mr. Chihito Kusabiraki, CEO, Weather News Inc, and Mr. Eric Gan, Representative Director, President, eAccess, were invited to this class. Thirdly, action learning opportunities such that you write up a business plan are prepared for students.

In this course, final assignment is to submitting your business plan. Apart from doing this work, this business plan assignment can also be used as submission for the SOI Asia Business Plan Contest, hosted by SOI Asia, Asian wide university alliance. On a voluntary basis, you will be given opportunities to present your business plan directly to the venture capitalist and industry.

Lecture Schedule

Learning about how to protect your idea and technology
Guest Speaker: Mr.Masanobu Katoh, Country Head (Japan), Intellectual Ventures.

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Oct 9, 2013 (Wed)

Learning about how to create new business, base on university researchers 1
Guest Speaker: Prof.Sureswaran Ramadass,
University Saint Malaysia, and founder of Mlab

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Oct 16, 2013 (Wed)

Learning about the supportive environment for university startup
Guest speaker, Mr. Veravej Ornthanalai (Guy), Entrepreneur in Thailand, former Business Developer at Intellectual Property Institute of Chulalongkorn University